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N. E. MURPHY.

RERAILING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 3|. my.

FIG. 1.

WITNESSES.

Pamnwd May 20, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1919.

Application filed December 31,1917. Serial No. 209,794.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS E. MURPHY, and resident Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, useful Improvements in Rerailing Devices, of which the following of Milwaukee,

is a description, reference being had to the which are a part of accompanying drawings, this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a rerailing device for returning railway cars to the rails after they have traveledbeyond the end of a spur track. I

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the rerailing device as herein claimed and all equivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference indicatethe same parts in different views:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the end of a spur track having a rerailing device, constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view thereof on the plane of line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In these drawings 10 indicates the track rails which at the end of the spur track are bent outwardly so as to form diverging projections 11. At the bend of each rail is secured a beveled block 12 which rests on the ties 13 and fits between the head and foot of the rail in the manner shown in Fig. 2, where it is held by clamping bolts 14 passing horizontally through it and the web of the rail. These blocks 12, besides having their meeting faces oblique with respect to the direction of the track in order to fit with the ends 11, have their opposite faces obliqueto the same degree but in the opposite direction so that they are symmetrical with respect to an axis extending in the direction of the track.

faces 15on which the flanges of the car wheels travel as they pass down off of the rails or as they are drawn upwardly onto the rails.

In operation the car that is backed off of the end of the spur track wil? be automatical y returned to the rails when pulled forwardly again. for the diverging rail ends deflect the car wheels when necessary to direct them toward the track and the flanges At their flaring ends they are provided with hovels or inclined sur- 45 ofthe wheels on striking "the inclined surfaces 1.5 of the blocks will ride up thereon and lift the wheels so that their treads are above or on the level with the heads of the rails. The contracting throatway between the diverging rail ends causes the wheels when thus lifted to be directed to the parallel rails. The act of drawing the car forwardly lifts it onto the rails notwithstanding a lateral displacement whereby the I wheels are out of alinement with the rails for the action of the diverging rail ends both before and after the wheels ride up on the blocks 12 corrects such displacement. Neither wheel can pass on the outside of the rail for it is shifted laterally to the right or the left according to the direction of its displacement upon engaging the bent end of the rail and its flange riding up the inclined surface of the block 12 lifts the tread to the level of the head of the'rail so that it moves easily into its proper position on the rail. One rail end or the other will constitute the dellecting means, but both, wheels of an axle will be lifted together by riding up the two blocks 12, and the shape of these blocks is such that they will act together to properly position both wheels of an axle though the truck may have swung to an angular position.

By means of this invention it is not necessary to provide a bumper post or upturned rails or other means for stopping a car at the 0nd of the track. for no harm would be done if the car continued beyond the end of the track. There is no delay occasioned by permitting the car to pass off of the end of the truck for rerailing is automatically accomplished when the car is pulled forwardly. There is, furthermore, no injury done to the brake beams and other parts beneath the car, as would be the case with track structures between the car wheels.

\Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A rerailing device for returning cars to the rails at the end of a track, comprising rail i'nembers bent to have their ends diverging from the main track, blocks having tapered sides fitting against the inner faces of, the webs of the rails at the bent portions of ing shape with their flaring ends beveled to form inclined surfaces, and bolts passing through the blocks and the Webs of the rails.

A rerailing device for returning cars to the rails at the end of the track, comprising diverging rail ends forming a continuation of the main track, and blocks having tapered rail engaging sides secured to the rails at the beginning of the diverging portions thereof and provided with inclined surfaces on 10 which the Wheel flanges travel for returnin the Wheels to the rails. In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

NICHOLAS E. MURPHY. Witnesses:

R. S. G. CALDWELL, H. D. CHASE. 

